R.R.S. (National Antarctic Exploring Vessel) Discovery moored on the Embankment

After her return from the National Antarctic Expedition in 1904, Discovery was bought by the Hudson's Bay Company in January 1905 and adapted as a merchant vessel voyaging to Hudson Bay 1905-11 and continuing in general service until the company granted the ship as temporary headquaters to the 16th Stepney Sea Scout Troops in 1922. She was bought by the Crown Agents for the Colonies for scientific research in the South Seas in 1923 and embarked on the Discovery (Oceanographic) Expedition in 1925(-7). She was lent to Mawson's British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) 1929-31, was laid up un London 1931-36, used as a training ship for the Boy Scouts 1936-39, before used by the Navy in the war. She was returned from London to her home city of Dundee in 1986.